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Read more: The Care Economy, Covid-19 Recovery and Gender Equality – A Summary Report
Ursula Barry, Emeritus Associate Professor, Gender Studies, School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, UCD Introduction 1 The propensity to care and the work of caring are the lifeblood of our social and economic systems. Care is central to the reproduction of society, part of the fundamental social infrastructure which holds society together.…
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Read more: Pandemic Unemployment Payments (PUP): Trends and Sectoral Impacts
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the Irish economy and labour market, with Ireland experiencing a steep decline in economic activity. Many sectors have been badly hit due to the closing of non-essential businesses and lockdown measures necessary to contain the spread of coronavirus
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Read more: Home Education Resources and Achievement in Reading and Maths: Exploring the Potential Consequences of School Closures in Ireland
Darragh Flannery, Kemmy Business School, Economics Department, University of Limerick The impact of school closures in terms of learning loss or other education or labour market outcomes will most likely take years to assess accurately. However, a recent working paper by Zsuzsa Blaskó, Patricia da Costa and Sylke Schnepf of the European Commission’s Joint Research…
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Read more: Institutional investment in the private rental sector in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic: a review of international ‘grey literature’ and reflections on the Irish context
Michael Byrne, School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, UCD Introduction The impact of Covid-19 on tenants in the private rental sector has been widely discussed in media and policy debates (see Byrne, 2021), but there has been very little discussion of its impact on investment in the PRS. This is an important…
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Read more: UCD Covid Compared (UCD CoCo) – Displaying Restrictions across the Globe
Robert Cazaciuc, University College Dublin1 Dr. Stephan Köppe, University College Dublin2 Key points UCD CoCo displays Covid-19 related restrictions globally. It is aimed at the general public and journalists. Benefits are simple and regularly updated graphs to initiate policy debates. Limitations are lack of nuance and inadequate display of policy interdependencies. Introduction The UCD CoCo…
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Read more: The Impact of the Pandemic on Services Oriented Towards Single Homeless Persons
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the urgency of providing adequate and appropriate accommodation for the most vulnerable groups within the context of strategies being implemented to curb the spread of the virus.
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Read more: The Pandemic One Year on: Trends and Statistics Between Three Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ireland
The first case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in Ireland on 29th February 2020 and the first death by Coronavirus on 11th March, the same day WHO (World Health Organisation) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic.
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Read more: COVID-19 Crisis Response Conference – Home Working 7th August
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a large section of the labour force who had been working in centralised locations to switch to home working. The switch to home working raises a wide range of questions about who can work from home and who wants to work from home; and about the consequences for workers’ wellbeing…
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Read more: Making Homeworking Work: Preferences And Experiences Of Full-Time Workers During COVID-19
COVID-19 has forced large numbers of workers to switch to homeworking. This report uses primary longitudinal data from two surveys of 808 full-time workers in the UK which were conducted before and during the period of COVID-19 restrictions. It examines the impact of the pandemic on workers’ homeworking preferences and on their self-rated levels of…
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Read more: The Utility of Public Transport in Ireland: Post COVID-19 Lockdown and Beyond
As urbanisation intensives worldwide (UN, 2019), the need to better manage, organise and connect towns and cities continues to be a firm objective for many municipalities. The built environment, as well as the social fabric of urban communities, are critical determinants of health and well-being for individuals
